...this closing ceremony will create nightmares for half of the populace?

I mean, we've had

• clowns who marched straight out of a John Wayne Gacy painting;
  
• folks who apparently broke into the Star Wars set for some costumes;
  
• and what one poster on a discussion forum I was on tonight described as "The Wandering Brides of Italy."

Perhaps a little too much vino, eh?